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Spanish nationality grants. By sex and the continent of previous nationality. Provinces

Spanish nationality grants. By sex and the continent of previous nationality 2017
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 4,654 714 416 780 6,564 25,924 25.3
Men 2,286 379 230 424 3,319 12,349 26.9
Women 2,368 335 186 356 3,245 13,575 23.9
European Union 72 15 13 15 115 828 13.9
Men 36 6 6 7 55 364 15.1
Women 36 9 7 8 60 464 12.9
Rest of Europe 101 32 5 26 164 624 26.3
Men 39 13 1 9 62 240 25.8
Women 62 19 4 17 102 384 26.6
Africa 1,425 362 283 425 2,495 7,823 31.9
Men 894 241 176 264 1,575 4,896 32.2
Women 531 121 107 161 920 2,927 31.4
North America 61 3 0 2 66 233 28.3
Men 27 1 0 0 28 95 29.5
Women 34 2 0 2 38 138 27.5
South and Central America 2,479 270 103 285 3,137 14,891 21.1
Men 934 97 38 123 1,192 5,798 20.6
Women 1,545 173 65 162 1,945 9,093 21.4
Asia and Oceania 514 32 11 27 584 1,507 38.8
Men 354 21 9 21 405 945 42.9
Women 160 11 2 6 179 562 31.9
Unknown nationality and stateless 2 0 1 0 3 18 16.7
Homes 2 0 0 0 2 11 18.2
Dones 0 0 1 0 1 7 14.3
Source: Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.
Notes:
The total includes the number of nationality grants in which is not include sex.
L'any 2017 ha disminuït el nombre de concessions per causes administratives.

Last update: June 25, 2018.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Nacionality
Legal bond that joins the person to the State and of which a series of rights and duties are derived.

Methodological aspects

The statistical of grants of the Spanish citizenship provide information regarding the number of foreign nationals who access Spanish citizenship by residence in Spain, in the conditions established in the Civil Code: by possession of state (Art. 18 CC), by adoption (Art. 19 CC), by choice (Art. 20 CC), with a naturalization card (Art. 21 CC) or by residence (Art. 22 CC).

This statistical includes only those cases of acquisition of citizenship by residence in Spain, this being the most common means for foreign nationals.

For the acquisition of the citizenship by residence it is necessary to have lived in Spain in a legal way, continued and immediately former to the request during a period of ten years, five, two or one, according to the cases:

  • Deu anys: general rule.
  • Five years: for the people who have been recognised as a refugee.
  • Two years: for those people originally from Latin America countries, Andorra, Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal or of Sephardic origin.
  • One year: for those people who are in the following situations:
    • a) they have been born in Spanish territory;
    • b) they have not exercised appropriately the faculty of opting;
    • c) they have been subject legally to the protection, guardianship or tutelage of a citizen or Spanish institution for two consecutive years, even if they continue in this situation in the moment of the request;
    • d) it's been a year that they are married with Spaniard and are not separate legally or de facto in the moment of the request (it is understood that the spouse who lives with Spanish diplomatic officer or consular agent accredited abroad has legal residence in Spain);
    • e) they are widowers of Spaniard if in the death of spouse there is no legal or de facto separation;
    • f) they have been born out of Spain of father or mother, grandfather or grandmother who originally have been Spaniards.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".